5/20/2023 0 Comments A cinderella christmasIt’ll take “A Christmas Miracle” to throw the downtrodden Kat and handsome Prince/Son of the Richest Guy in Town together. Glass snowglobe, not glass slippers? Nah. ![]() ![]() No magical mice or glass slippers are here, and actress/choreographer/writer/director Michelle Johnston doesn’t make the movie “fit” the tale’s parameters as neatly as you’d hope. “Hot Santa” they call him, not realizing he’s rich boy/would-be music impressario Dominic Wintergarden ( Gregg Sulkin of Hulu’s “Runaways”), the VERY guy Kat tripped up and spilled all that Starbucks product all over herself in front of.Īll these movies are offspring of that 2004 Hilary Duff hit, “A Christmas Story,” which took its plot from the famous fairy tale. He’s their age, but he’s already got the beard on every time they see him. It’s a simple holiday wish-fulfillment romance about a girl who just wants to write songs and sing songs and “sell out arenas.”įor now, she sings and dances in the show at Santa’s Village with BFF Isla (Isabella Gomez), wearing an elf costume as they do.īut wait! There’s a new Santa joining the ensemble. “It’s pronounced GAW-la! I’ve been working on an upper class accent!”Īt some point, MANY points in this little ditty of a holiday musical comedy, you may find yourself wishing Kat would just nunchuck the lot of them. You look like a fetus!”Īnd gauche? Fuggedaboutit! They’ll be right at home at the big Chrismas Eve gala. Grace and Joy take turns trashing her appearance. Joy has a vlog, and never misses a chance to humiliate Kat, videoing her after she stumbles while toting their shopping and massive Starbucks order. Stepmom bullies and steals and connives and will not HAVE you interrupt her time to “bitchwatch ‘The Real Housewives of Manhattan Beach.'” Her dad married Deirdre (Newmarch, perfectly vile) and died, leaving her stuck cleaning up after and even financially supporting these golddigging neer-do-wells. ![]() They are SO mean to poor Kat ( Laura Marano of “Perfect Date” and “Ladybird”). You don’t have to be a tweenage girl to get your back up at how LOATHESOME the evil stepmother (Hallmark Channel favorite Johannah Newmarch) and her daughters, Joy ( Lillian Doucet-Roche) and Grace ( Chanelle Peloso) are. “A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish,” has some doozies. You shouldn’t make a Cinderella movie without having some killer “Steps” in mind.
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